Edmund Burke Causes Quotations

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.